The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Teaching support

Whether you are a new or experienced instructor, graduate student, or a postdoctoral fellow starting out on your teaching career, we offer a broad range of teaching development supports that will assist your teaching.

The supports we offer include workshops and teaching programs, course and curriculum design and development, teaching handbooks, learning technology resources and academic integrity strategies.

Teaching support

Our services

We offer a broad range of teaching development supports that will assist instructors, teaching assistant, post-doctoral fellows.

- Classroom observation
- Customized workshops
- Course development consultations
- Indigenous pedagogical resources and consultations
- Equity, diversity and inclusion consultations
- Teaching assistant consultations
- Teaching dossier consultation
- UM SRI course evaluation consultations
- Teaching strategies discussion
- Help with difficulties you are facing in the classroom

Upcoming workshops and events

Workshops for faculty

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) workshops

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) workshops

Workshops for graduate students and teaching assistants (TAs)

Learning technologies workshops

Explore our learning technologies workshops

Programs we offer

We offer a wide variety of programs, workshops and special teaching events to the university teaching community to enhance teaching and learning experiences.

Graduate Teaching Program (GTP)

The Level 1: Novice Graduate Teaching Program (GTP) is for current full-time or part-time Masters, PhD and post-doctoral fellows at the University of Manitoba who are in the early stages of their teaching careers and who want to learn more about teaching in higher education. The knowledge and skills attained in the program will help graduate students further develop their confidence and competence as a new teacher.

Instructor with students with laptops in class.

Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

Developed in British Columbia in the late 1970s, the ISW was initially intended for new instructors. Since then, the program has grown extensively and has become a component of many faculty development programs across colleges and universities in Canada, the United States and around the world.

Instructors talking and walking on campus.

Teaching and Learning Certificate (TLC)

The UM TLC program is designed for faculty and full-time instructors who are in the early part of their teaching career. The program has been specifically designed to accommodate the busy schedule of faculty: limited classroom hours, flexible workshop offerings, supportive mentoring, and individualized teaching feedback.

We can help you make your teaching more just

Indigenous pedagogies and equity, diversity, and inclusion are important topics where we offer specialist support.

Indigenous pedagogical resources

In distinct Indigenous worldviews, 13 is a sacred number related to the 13 yearly moons and the turtle is a symbol of Truth. With that in mind and with the help of Indigenous Initiatives Educators, we've compiled resources related to 13 topics within Indigenous pedagogical theory to help you incorporate the Truth of Indigenous pedagogies into your classroom.

Tree made out of different coloured hand prints

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) inform teaching and learning in countless ways. Here, you can deepen your understanding of key terms, learn more about specific teaching and learning strategies, and take action.

Explore teaching strategies

Incorporate experiential learning into your teaching, get help with teaching remotely or help developing a face-to-face or blended learning course.

Experiential learning

Experiential learning is learning through experience. Students learn through processes such as problem-solving, critical evaluation and action-orientated projects in real-life settings.

A student looks at a laptop wearing a mask on campus

Remote teaching support

The COVID-19 pandemic has made us all have to re-think how we teach. The Centre has compiled resources to help you make remote learning a great experience for you and your students.

Course and curriculum development

Whether you are creating a face-to-face, blended or online course for the first time or you would like to change an existing course, The Centre’s course development experts can help you define your learning objectives, design aligned learning activities and formulate effective assessments to improve learner outcomes.

Teaching resources

Except where otherwise noted, these teaching resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Magna Commons

The Centre provides all faculty and teaching instructors free access to the Magna Commons teaching resources. Magna Commons, founded in 1972, is an online, cloud-based professional development resource for faculty.

Through this resource, you have access to vetted and cutting-edge professional development resources. Please login to UM Learn to access this resource in your course offerings.

Professor speaking with student in classroom.

Knowledge nuggets

Bite-sized resources to help students help themselves, as a collection of teaching/learning resources for promoting academic integrity and related topics (e.g., citing and referencing, finding valid sources) that has been curated within UM Learn.
These resources include content in various forms and sample learning outcomes, learning activities and quizzes. Instructors can select and import chosen resources into their own course shells and modify them to suit their specific course needs.
Interested instructors can contact Brenda Stoesz to gain access to this UM Learn course.

Contact us

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
65 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, MB
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

thecentrecontactus@umanitoba.ca

204-474-8708

204-474-7514

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Teaching support

Teaching support

Our services

Upcoming workshops and events

Workshops for faculty

Foundational workshops

Specialty workshops

Teaching and Learning Certificate (TLC) workshops

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) workshops

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) workshops

Workshops for graduate students and teaching assistants (TAs)

Graduate Teaching Program (GTP) workshops

Graduate student workshops

Learning technologies workshops

Explore our learning technologies workshops

Programs we offer

Graduate Teaching Program (GTP)

Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

Teaching and Learning Certificate (TLC)

Become a TLC mentor

Meet our TLC graduates

We can help you make your teaching more just

Indigenous pedagogical resources

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

Explore teaching strategies

Experiential learning

Remote teaching support

Course and curriculum development

Teaching resources

Preparation

Strategies

Assessment

Contexts

Documenting

Handbooks

Magna Commons

Knowledge nuggets

Contact us